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WEATHER
for Saturday, September 4,1999
High: 72;
Low: &%'
Skies W?tl be partly cloudy. UV idSKtS 7; UV risk is high.
Little big man: Senior tailback Chad Morton has overcome injury and the shadow of his older brother to become a star for USC. i ?
__________________________________________________________'irnnrii Jidb
Y2K madness: Media, sellers are screaming, ‘The Sky is Falling.’ Consumers play into the game. A
___________ ________________________________________________VIEWPOINT
Technology Off the Wire Calendar
Daily Trojan editorial Classifieds Crossword Puzzle
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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
September 3,1999 Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 4
Five’s company
High university housing demand has made living too close for comfort for some
By JENNIFER BARR
Staff Writer
, esse Simms’ bedroom is so crowded, one of his two roommates won’t even sleep there.
The three share a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Troy Hall where space is so limited that two of the beds were bunked so all three fit in the room. Bunking the beds, however, has resulted in little head room for the roommate sleeping on the top bunk.
“My roommate can’t sit up in bed without hitting his head on the ceiling,” said Simms, a sophomore majoring in political science.
The room is so cramped that one of their desks had to be placed in the living room and storage space is a problem.
“I have to keep boxes in my car until I figure out what to do with them,” Simms said.
This situation is common to some students living in Troy Hall, Troy East and other university-owned complexes around campus including Centennial, Regal Trojan and Pacific. Some apartments in these buildings, which normally house two or four people in each, now have an extra person.
With 700 more returning students requesting university housing and two Parkside apartment buildings targeted for demolition this year, Housing and Residence Hall had to increase the number of students living in apartments to find places for everyone.
Two Parkside buildings, which would provide 140 spaces, are currently empty as they are set to be torn down to make room for the new Internationally Themed Residential College which is expected to open fall semester 2001 and provide roughly I see Housing, page 7 I
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Come and knock. Sophomore Andrea Somerville talks on the phone while her roommate, sophomore Wendi Grate, reads in their Troy East apartment.
Professors, student study Turkey tremor
Research: Tsunami experts travel to country in wake of earthquake to examine effect on coastal towns
By DANA NICHOLS
Staff Writer ,
While emergency relief teams poured into Izmit Bay, Turkey, last week to search for survivors of the 7-4 earthquake that occurred Aug. 17, two USC professors and one student traveled to several coastal towns, looking for evidence that a tsunami accompanied the tremor.
During their six-day study, civil engineering professors Ahmet Yalciner and Costas Synolakis and doctoral student Jose Borrero conducted research which determined that the “TurQuake” — as Yalciner dubbed it — caused a large sea wave to sweep up on Turkey shores.
Yalciner and Borrero returned to Los Angeles on Aug. 27. Synolakis remains in Turkey.
“After the earthquake, we heard reports of a tsunami in the Sea of Marmara, so we had to go check it out,” Borrero responded in a letter to the Daily Trojan. “It is what we do anytime there is a tsunami anywhere. Last year it was Papus, New Guinea. Before that we have gone to Mexico, (the) Philippines and several times to Indonesia.”
The three researchers carefully picked through Izmit Bay, which surrounds the Sea of Marmara. Starting on the north coast of the bay, they traveled by way of rented vans and boats and photographed collapsed buildings, split sidewalks, oil spills and even a restaurant that completely disappeared under the water.
‘The view that I have seen was unbelievable and unforgettable. I can say that none of the film producers or authors could imagine this kind of disaster,” Yalciner, a visiting professor from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, who has been at USC for the last six months, responded in a letter to the Daily Trojan.
Yalciner, Synolakis and Borrero joined hundreds of university professors from around the world in their trek to Turkey to survey damage, although the tsunami research was done exclusively by the USC team.
In Turkey they met Jean-Pierre Bardet, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and James Dolan, an earth science professor who is an expert on the North Anatolian fault, where the earthquake occurred. Dolan was in Turkey two weeks before the quake studying the fault and poor building code enforcement.
Before the trip, the researchers had been conducting surveys of the California coast to determine spots most vulnerable to tsunamis. They arrived in Turkey four days after the earthquake occurred. According to Yalciner, it was necessary for the survey to be completed
I see Turkey, page 7 I
Today debuts the first
“Technology” column,
which will focus on
high tech advances, «
including the internet,
cornputers and enter-
tainment equipment.
Story ideas for the
column can he sent to \
mtroian@usc.edu. The f .. ... feature will appear
every Friday on
page 2.
Pacific Islanders now included in APASA
Group: Name changed to Asian Pacific American Student Assembly to better represent students
By KIMBERLY TABA
Staff Writer
Known as the Asian American Student Assembly for more than 10 years, this division of Program Board changed its name to Asian Pacific American Student Assembly this year to include USC’s Pacific Islander population.
“In the past, Pacific Islanders have been in limbo,” said Barrett Reiff, executive director of Program Board. “They do not
consider themselves necessarily as Asians. Adding a letter to the name is a way to accommodate this.”
APASA is a student-run organization that oversees and allocates funds to 14 Asian-ori-ented clubs. It seeks to promote diversity and foster a sense of community among Asian Pacific American students. The executive board voted in the spring of 1998 to officially change the organization’s name to the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly, but kept the acronym AASA.
But this summer the board decided that the dynamics of the APA community were changing and that the name needed to recognize this shift. Pacific Islanders are a significant part of the student body, club members said, and clubs such as Troy Philippines have been active contributors to the former AASA “As Pacific Islanders, we’re categorized
and lumped together with Asians,” said Kamryn Clark, a senior majoring in international relations and co-president of the Pacific Islander Student Association. “We sometimes feel left out because there’s lots of issues....We don’t have high matriculation at universities. There’s the stereotypes of football players and performers.
“We’re excited about the change,” said Clark, public relations director for APASA “It’s more reflective of us and it lets Pacific Islanders know there’s a place to come to network and just find each other on campus.”
The new name is only one of the changes APASA plans for the year. The organization also plans to put on more events on campus to make APASA’s presence more visible and encourage the clubs to be more vocal in the community.
I see APASA, page 7 I

WEATHER
for Saturday, September 4,1999
High: 72;
Low: &%'
Skies W?tl be partly cloudy. UV idSKtS 7; UV risk is high.
Little big man: Senior tailback Chad Morton has overcome injury and the shadow of his older brother to become a star for USC. i ?
__________________________________________________________'irnnrii Jidb
Y2K madness: Media, sellers are screaming, ‘The Sky is Falling.’ Consumers play into the game. A
___________ ________________________________________________VIEWPOINT
Technology Off the Wire Calendar
Daily Trojan editorial Classifieds Crossword Puzzle
dtrojan@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/dt
HUH TRII.I1N
NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
September 3,1999 Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 4
Five’s company
High university housing demand has made living too close for comfort for some
By JENNIFER BARR
Staff Writer
, esse Simms’ bedroom is so crowded, one of his two roommates won’t even sleep there.
The three share a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Troy Hall where space is so limited that two of the beds were bunked so all three fit in the room. Bunking the beds, however, has resulted in little head room for the roommate sleeping on the top bunk.
“My roommate can’t sit up in bed without hitting his head on the ceiling,” said Simms, a sophomore majoring in political science.
The room is so cramped that one of their desks had to be placed in the living room and storage space is a problem.
“I have to keep boxes in my car until I figure out what to do with them,” Simms said.
This situation is common to some students living in Troy Hall, Troy East and other university-owned complexes around campus including Centennial, Regal Trojan and Pacific. Some apartments in these buildings, which normally house two or four people in each, now have an extra person.
With 700 more returning students requesting university housing and two Parkside apartment buildings targeted for demolition this year, Housing and Residence Hall had to increase the number of students living in apartments to find places for everyone.
Two Parkside buildings, which would provide 140 spaces, are currently empty as they are set to be torn down to make room for the new Internationally Themed Residential College which is expected to open fall semester 2001 and provide roughly I see Housing, page 7 I
Azad Jafarian I Daily Trojan
Come and knock. Sophomore Andrea Somerville talks on the phone while her roommate, sophomore Wendi Grate, reads in their Troy East apartment.
Professors, student study Turkey tremor
Research: Tsunami experts travel to country in wake of earthquake to examine effect on coastal towns
By DANA NICHOLS
Staff Writer ,
While emergency relief teams poured into Izmit Bay, Turkey, last week to search for survivors of the 7-4 earthquake that occurred Aug. 17, two USC professors and one student traveled to several coastal towns, looking for evidence that a tsunami accompanied the tremor.
During their six-day study, civil engineering professors Ahmet Yalciner and Costas Synolakis and doctoral student Jose Borrero conducted research which determined that the “TurQuake” — as Yalciner dubbed it — caused a large sea wave to sweep up on Turkey shores.
Yalciner and Borrero returned to Los Angeles on Aug. 27. Synolakis remains in Turkey.
“After the earthquake, we heard reports of a tsunami in the Sea of Marmara, so we had to go check it out,” Borrero responded in a letter to the Daily Trojan. “It is what we do anytime there is a tsunami anywhere. Last year it was Papus, New Guinea. Before that we have gone to Mexico, (the) Philippines and several times to Indonesia.”
The three researchers carefully picked through Izmit Bay, which surrounds the Sea of Marmara. Starting on the north coast of the bay, they traveled by way of rented vans and boats and photographed collapsed buildings, split sidewalks, oil spills and even a restaurant that completely disappeared under the water.
‘The view that I have seen was unbelievable and unforgettable. I can say that none of the film producers or authors could imagine this kind of disaster,” Yalciner, a visiting professor from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, who has been at USC for the last six months, responded in a letter to the Daily Trojan.
Yalciner, Synolakis and Borrero joined hundreds of university professors from around the world in their trek to Turkey to survey damage, although the tsunami research was done exclusively by the USC team.
In Turkey they met Jean-Pierre Bardet, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and James Dolan, an earth science professor who is an expert on the North Anatolian fault, where the earthquake occurred. Dolan was in Turkey two weeks before the quake studying the fault and poor building code enforcement.
Before the trip, the researchers had been conducting surveys of the California coast to determine spots most vulnerable to tsunamis. They arrived in Turkey four days after the earthquake occurred. According to Yalciner, it was necessary for the survey to be completed
I see Turkey, page 7 I
Today debuts the first
“Technology” column,
which will focus on
high tech advances, «
including the internet,
cornputers and enter-
tainment equipment.
Story ideas for the
column can he sent to \
mtroian@usc.edu. The f .. ... feature will appear
every Friday on
page 2.
Pacific Islanders now included in APASA
Group: Name changed to Asian Pacific American Student Assembly to better represent students
By KIMBERLY TABA
Staff Writer
Known as the Asian American Student Assembly for more than 10 years, this division of Program Board changed its name to Asian Pacific American Student Assembly this year to include USC’s Pacific Islander population.
“In the past, Pacific Islanders have been in limbo,” said Barrett Reiff, executive director of Program Board. “They do not
consider themselves necessarily as Asians. Adding a letter to the name is a way to accommodate this.”
APASA is a student-run organization that oversees and allocates funds to 14 Asian-ori-ented clubs. It seeks to promote diversity and foster a sense of community among Asian Pacific American students. The executive board voted in the spring of 1998 to officially change the organization’s name to the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly, but kept the acronym AASA.
But this summer the board decided that the dynamics of the APA community were changing and that the name needed to recognize this shift. Pacific Islanders are a significant part of the student body, club members said, and clubs such as Troy Philippines have been active contributors to the former AASA “As Pacific Islanders, we’re categorized
and lumped together with Asians,” said Kamryn Clark, a senior majoring in international relations and co-president of the Pacific Islander Student Association. “We sometimes feel left out because there’s lots of issues....We don’t have high matriculation at universities. There’s the stereotypes of football players and performers.
“We’re excited about the change,” said Clark, public relations director for APASA “It’s more reflective of us and it lets Pacific Islanders know there’s a place to come to network and just find each other on campus.”
The new name is only one of the changes APASA plans for the year. The organization also plans to put on more events on campus to make APASA’s presence more visible and encourage the clubs to be more vocal in the community.
I see APASA, page 7 I